Gardi Sugdub Relocation Features in Latest Film from The Shore Line Project

DS & NRC publication on the Pinheiro Principles in Myanmar - Burmese/Myanmar version

Ontong Java: New Report by DS and photojournalist by Beni Knight

2009 and 2010 were busy years for Displacement Solutions. We have deployed HLP experts to a variety of countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, DR Congo, Fiji, Kiribati, Maldives, Thailand, Tuvalu and others. They have worked on a number of important and vexing issues within the displacement field - from climate change-induced displacement to war crimes and the home, disability and displacement to an Initiative on the Pinheiro Principles. We have developed intensive training and course materials on various HLP rights themes, published a range of cutting edge books and articles and have been leading international efforts to acquire land for people displaced due to climate change. The just released 2009-2010 Activity Report of Displacement Solutions provides a summary of our work over the past two years - It is available here. (PDF 9.7 MB)...

The Shore Line Project, directed by Liz Miller, sheds light on the predicament of coastal communities around the world which face displacement. A recent film by the Shore Line Project looks at the displacement and relocation process of the island of Gardi Sugdub in Panama. Due to the consequences of rising sea levels, more than 30,000 people from the Gunayala islands of Panama face displacement. The 1000 Gunayala members of the Gardi Sugdub island are currently carrying out their planned relocation to the safer mainland. The film interviews Blas Lopez, a community leader of the Gunayala community of Gardi Sugdub. To the Main Land: Carti Sugdup's Solution from ShoreLine on Vimeo....

Exquisite photojournalism by Beni Knight captures the unique way of life of the people of Ontong Java in the Solomon Islands and their responses to the effects of climate change: growing food insecurity, coastal erosion, cyclones and how to grapple with the looming decision of whether to move away from the land they have inhabited for countless generations. Click here to read DS' latest publication. ...